Salvage the bones : a novel
Title:
Salvage the bones : a novel
Author:
Ward, Jesmyn
ISBN:
9781608195220
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York [etc.] : Bloomsbury, 2011
Physical Description:
261 p. ; 22 cm
Abstract:
Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
Subject Term:
Subject:
| African American children -- Fiction |
| African American teenage girls -- Fiction |
| Brothers and sisters -- Fiction |
| Motherless families -- Fiction |
| African American families -- Mississippi -- Fiction |
| Rural poor -- Mississippi -- Fiction |
| Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction |
| Gulf Coast (Miss.) -- Fiction |
Summary:
Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.